Mark Demesmaeker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Demesmaeker
Occupation	Television Presenter
Date Of Birth	Sep 12, 1958(1958-09-12)
Age	66
Birthplace	Halle
Country	Belgium
Birth City	Flemish Region
Horoscope	Virgo

Mark Demesmaeker Biography

Mark Demesmaeker is one of the most popular and richest Television Presenter who was born on September 12, 1958 in Halle, Flemish Region, Belgium. Mark Demesmaeker (Dutch: [mark d@’mesmak@r]; born 12 October 1958) is a Belgian TV journalist, newsreader, and politician who is a member of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).

After the demise of Frieda Brepoels she was elected mayor of Bilzen. office of mayor of Bilzen, Mark Demesmaeker joined the European Parliament as N-VA MEP in February of 2013. He was removed from the Flemish Parliament by Piet De Bruyn. From February 2013 to the end of May, 2014, De Bruyn was in his Group of the Greens and the European Free Alliance (a group comprised of ecologists as well as moderate regionalists and independentists with a liberal or centrist perspective).

In May 2015, Demesmaeker was placed on Vladimir Putin’s black list of “undesirables” on Russian territory, rendering travel to Russia impossible under the present regime, due to his support of Ukraine’s role in the War in Donbass. In August 2015, Demesmaeker was decorated with the Order of Merit, III Class by the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, for his ‘important contribution to strengthening the international authority of the Ukrainian state’.

In March 2018, the Belgian prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into Demesmaeker, after being notified by the tax collection office of an unpaid debt of 540.000 EUR. which was not denied by Demesmaeker.

In 2006 He got elected into his position on the City Council of Halle and became an alderman. He was elected alderman in 2012. won a second term with the highest number of preferential votes, however an alliance was created without his own party.

Mark Demesmaeker Net Worth

Mark Demesmaeker is one of the richest Television Presenter from Belgium. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Demesmaeker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Demesmaeker was born in Halle, Flemish Brabant, and initially worked as a teacher, focusing on subjects like Dutch, English and History. He then switched careers to journalism and was an reporter for a travel show that was broadcast by the state-owned public radio station VRT from 1991. Soon after, he was transferred to VTM, a commercial channel VTM which he joined as a news anchor from 2004. Demesmaeker also co-created and hosted the gardening program Groene Vingers (Green Fingers).

He was elected an official Member of the Flemish Parliament in 2004 and then reelected 2009. in 2013, Demesmaeker was dismissed from his position in the Flemish Parliament to succeed Frieda Brepoels (who was elected mayor in Bilzen) as a member of the European Parliament. He was elected directly in 2014 to continue the position.

In the European elections of 2014, Demesmaeker was re-elected with a resounding majority with 125,000 preferential votes. The N-VA received the greatest share of votes across the Flanders region and had 4 MEPs elected to the European Parliament, the single largest amount of MEPs ever sent by one party in Flanders to the European Parliament. In June the party moved to the European Conservatives and Reformists group, where Demesmaeker is head of the N-VA delegation.

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Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Television Presenter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belgium. Mark Demesmaeker celebrates birthday on September 12 of every year.